Byloke, Ghent
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 10 7/16 × 14 7/16 in. (26.5 × 36.7 cm) Sheet: 14 3/16 × 20 3/8 in. (36 × 51.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.71.1(5)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Shotter Boys|Charles Joseph Hullmandel|Thomas Boys · 1803–1874
Thomas Shotter Boys was born on 2 January 1803 in Pentonville, London, and received his first professional training as an apprentice to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship concluded he crossed the Channel to Paris, a move that would transform his artistic direction entirely. There he encountered Richard Parkes Bonington, the brilliant English watercolourist whose fresh, luminous ren...